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CURRICULUM VITAE
Kingsley James Arthur COX
Current position
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony
Brook, NY
Previous posts - Academic
1999- 2002 Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, SUNY at Stony Brook,
Stony Brook, NY
1996 –1999 Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY
1995 –1996 Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY at Stony
Brook, Stony Brook, NY
1994 –1995 Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Neurobiology
and Behavior, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
1989 –1991 Research Assistant, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson
University, Philadelphia
Education
1991 – 1994
1988 – 1989
1982 – 1985
Ph.D. Molecular Neurobiology Sussex University, England
M.Sc. Neurochemistry London University, England
B.Sc. (Hons) Chemistry (2:1) Leicester University, England
Awards
1996-1999 NRSA Postdoctoral grant
1994-1995 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research fellowship
1991-1994 Science and Engineering Research Council (U.K.) postgraduate award
Patents Held
Thermal combination cup and fluid container. U.K. Patent number 2291180 (issued July 12th,
1994), U.S. Patent number 5823380 (issued Oct. 20, 1998)
Neural Network Device for Evolving Appropriate Connections. U.S. Patent Number 7080053
issued 7/18/2006
Patent Pending
Apparatus for maintaining Airway Patency. U.S. Patent Application Number 11/446344
Previous posts – Non- Academic
CEO, Genpak Inc. (1996-2000)
Director, Genetix USA Inc. (2000-2003)
Publications
Adams, P.R., and Cox, K.J.A. 2006 A neurobiological perspective on building intelligent
devices. The Neuromorphic Engineer, volume 3, 1.
Adams,P. and Cox, K.J.A. (2002) A New View of Thalamocortical Function. Phil Trans R. Soc
Lond B 357, 1767-1779
Adams, P.R., and Cox, K.J.A. (2002). Synaptic Darwinism and neocortical function.
Neurocomputing, 42, 197-214.
Cox, K.J.A., and Adams, P.R. (2000). Implications of synaptic digitisation and error for
neocortical function. Neurocomputing, 32-33, 673-678.
Tensen, C.P., Cox, K.J.A., van der Schors, R.C., Burke, J.F., Vreugdenhil, E., and van
Heerikhuizen, H. (1998). Cloning, characterization and expression of a neuropeptide Y receptor,
and identification of its endogenous ligand from Lymnaea stagnalis. Eur. J. Neurosci., 10,
3409-3416.
Tensen, C.P., Cox, K.J.A., Smit, A.B., van der Schors, R.C., Hermann, P.M., Meyerhof, W.,
Richter, D., van Minnen, J., Burke, J.F., Geraerts, W.P.M., Vreugdenhil, E., Knol, J.C., and van
Heerikhuizen, H. (1998). The Lymnaea cardioexcitatory peptide (LyCEP) receptor: a G-proteincoupled receptor for a novel member of the RFamide neuropeptide family. J. Neurosci., 98,
9812-9821.
Fetcho, J.R., Cox, K.J.A., and O’Malley, D. (1998). Monitoring activity in neuronal populations
with single cell resolution in a behaving vertebrate. Histochem. J., 30, 153-167.
Burke, J.F., Cox K.J.A., Perry, S., Tensen, C.P. and van Heerikhuizen, H. (1998) FMRFamide
related peptides: their expression, their receptors and their role in mammals. J. Physiol., 513P.
16S.
Cox, K.J.A., Tensen, C.P., van der Schors, R., Li, K.-W., van Heerikhuizen, H., Vreugdenhil, E.,
Wijnand, Geraerts, P.M., and Burke, J.F. (1997). Cloning, characterization and expression of a
G-protein coupled receptor from Lymnaea stagnalis and identification of a leucokinin-like
peptide, PSFHSWSamide, as its endogenous ligand. J. Neurosci., 17, 1197-1205.
Fetcho, J.R., Cox, K.J.A., and O’Malley D. (1997). Imaging neuronal activity with single cell
resolution in an intact behaving vertebrate. Biol. Bull., 192, 150-153.
Cox, K.J.A., and Fetcho, J.R. (1996). Labelling blastomeres with a calcium indicator: a noninvasive method of visualizing neuronal activity in zebrafish. J. Neurosci. Meth., 68, 185-191.
Tensen, C.P., van Kesteren, E.R., Spijker, J., van Minnen, J., Planta, R.J., Cox, K.J.A., Burke,
J.F., van Heerikhuizen, H., and Vreugdenhil, E. (1994). Molecular cloning and neuronal
expression of a novel type of a G-protein coupled receptor from the pond snail Lymnaea
stagnalis. Neth. J. Zoology, 44, 463-472.
Tensen, C.P., van Kesteren, E.R, Planta, R.J., Cox, K.J.A., Burke, J.F., van Heerikhuizen, H.,
and Vreugdenhil, E. (1993). A G protein coupled receptor with LDL-binding motifs suggests a
role for lipoproteins in G-protein-linked signal transduction. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 91,
4816-4820.
Slater, S.J., Cox, K.J.A., Lombardi, J.V., Ho, C., Kelly, M.B., Rubin, E., and Stubbs, C.D.
(1993). Inhibition of protein kinase C by alcohols and anaesthetics, Nature, 364, 82-84.
Stubbs, C.D., Slater, S.J., Ho, C., Kelly, M.B., Rubin, E., and Cox, K.J.A. (1992). Alcohols
Inhibit protein kinase C, Alcoholism, 16, 360
Cox, K.J.A., Rubin, E., and Stubbs, C.D. (1992). The effect of membrane fluidization on protein
kinase C - inhibition by ethanol and higher alcohols and stimulation by increased lipid
unsaturation or addition of nonesterified fatty acids Faseb Journal, 6, no.1, 34.
Cox, K.J.A., Ho, C., Lombardi, J., and Stubbs, C.D. (1992). Gramicidin conformational studies
with mixed chain unsaturated phospholipid bilayers, Biochemistry, 31, 1112-1118
Oral presentations
G Protein Coupled Receptors in Lymnaea stagnalis
Society for Experimental Biology Meeting, Cardiff, Wales, 1994
Cloning of G Protein Coupled Receptors in the Pond Snail Lymnaea stagnalis
SERC Invertebrate Neuroscience Initiative - Annual Workshop Meeting, Sussex University,
1993
Poster presentations
Cox, K.J.A., Radulescu, A., and Adams, P.R. (2006) Thalamocorticothalamic circuits
for universal learning, Neuronal Circuits Meeting, CSHL New York.
Cox, K.J.A. and Adams P.R. (1999) A simulation of sprouting during reward-based learning.
Society for Neuroscience, Miami.
Cox, K.J.A. and Fetcho, J.R. (1996) Labeling blastomeres with a calcium indicator: a noninvasive method of visualizing neuronal activity in zebrafish. Society for Neuroscience,
Washington,.
Tensen, C.P., Cox, K.J.A., van der Schors, R.C., Burke, J.F., Vreugdenhil, E., and van
Heerikhuizen, H. (1994) Cloning of G Protein Coupled Receptors in Lymnaea stagnalis. Society
for Neuroscience, Miami.
Burke, J.F., Santama, N., Kellet, E. , Cox, K.J.A., Saunders, S., Benjamin, P.R., and Tensen C.P.
(1994) Expression of G protein linked receptors and the neuropeptide genes FMRFamide and
myomodulin in Lymnaea. Brain Research Assoc. 11, 70.
Cox, K.J.A., Tensen, C.P., Gerhardt, C.C., van Kesteren, E.R., Planta, R.J.,Vreugdenhil, E., and
van Heerikhuizen, H.and Burke, J.F (1993) Cloning of G protein coupled neuropeptide receptors
in the pond snail Lymnaea stagnalis. Neurobiology of Aplysia Symposium Cold Spring Harbor.
Cox, K.J.A., Ho, C., Lombardi, J., and Stubbs, C.D. (1991) Effect of increasing membrane
fluidity on protein kinase C. Biochemical Society, Royal Holloway and New College, London.
Cox, K.J.A., Ho, C., and Stubbs, C.D. (1991) Conformational studies of gramicidin in lipid
bilayers. American Biophysical Society, Baltimore.